In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
'It's this accursed Science,' I cried. 'It's the very Devil. The mediaeval priests and persecutors were right, and the Moderns are all wrong. You tamper with it-and it offers you gifts. And directly you take them it knocks you to pieces in some unexpected way.'
Take heede of the viniger of sweet wine.
They that are booted are not alwaies ready.
Humble Hearts have humble desires.
Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.